My definition of creativity is the ability to create a unique, original product from scratch. This week in class, my group, group 5, decided to have LLMs create a poem in the style of Yaet, the rapper. ChatGPT’s response was not unique and not even created from scratch. Many of the rhymes that ChatGPT created are rhymes that I’ve heard many times before. When prompting ChatGPT to, “Create a short poem in the style of yaet the rapper.” ChatGPT provided the following poem.

“Yeah
I step in the night with the lights all glowin
Money keep callin my phone it keep showin
Diamonds they dance and they freeze in the moment
I told em I got it I meant it I own it

Pull up in silence the engine be hummin
Thought I was lost but I turned into somethin
Stack it up tall like it came out the oven
Countin it twice cause I came from the nothin

Yeah
They tryna ride on the wave that I made
I been up late turnin dark into day
Voices in my head but they fade with the bass
I keep it movin no time to just wait

I been on top and I never look down
Came from the dirt now I walk with a crown
Life like a loop it keep goin around
I just keep floatin I don’t make a sound”

While I cannot argue that this poem is awful, and I cannot argue that this is not in the style of Yeat, I can argue that this is unoriginal as it gets. “They tryna ride on the wave.” Is a lyric that has been used by Yeat in a real song before. This is completely unoriginal, and therefore, I would not say ChatGPT used any form of creativity in the output of our group’s prompt. This week’s experiments shifted my thought on AI’s responses to prompts that include writing. In this assignment, ChatGPT stole lyrics from other songs, and used it as its own. Because this is illegal for humans to do, I argue that ChatGPT should not be able, or allowed to do this either. Yeat is king, and I find it preposterous that ChatGPT would take Yeat’s creative work, and claim it as its own.